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Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France - The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor (Paperback)
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Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France - The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor (Paperback)
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The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way
French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care.
New hospitals were built to confine the able bodied and existing
hospitals sheltering the sick poor contracted new medical staff and
shifted their focus towards offering more medical services. Whilst
these moves have often been regarded as a coherent state led
policy, recent scholarship has begun to question this assumption,
and pick-up on more localised concerns, and resistance to centrally
imposed policies. This book engages with these concerns, to
investigate the links between charitable health care, poor relief,
religion, national politics and urban social order in
seventeenth-century France. In so doing it revises our
understanding of the roles played in these issues by the crown and
social elites, arguing that central government's social policy was
conservative and largely reactive to pressure from local elites. It
suggests that Louis XIV's policy regarding the reform of poor
relief and the creation of General Hospitals in each town and city,
as enshrined in the edict of 1662, was largely driven by the
religious concerns of the kingdom's devout and the financial fears
of the Parisian elites that their city hospitals were overburdened.
Only after the Sun King's reign did central government begin to
take a proactive role in administering poor relief and health care,
utilizing urban charitable institutions to further its own
political goals. By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban
elites into the history of French poor relief, this book shows how
the key role they played in the reform of hospitals, inspired by a
mix of religious, economic and social motivations. It concludes
that the state could be a reluctant participant in reform, until
pressured into action by assisting elite groups pursuing their own
goals.
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